Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition

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Book Description

In this greatly expanded edition of the defacto standard, you'll learn
about the nearly 200 changes already made since original publication -
and find out about gray areas likely to be revised later. Written by
the Vice-Chairman of X3J13 (the ANSI committee responsible for the
standardization of Common Lisp) and co-developer of the language
itself, the new edition contains the entire text of the first edition
plus six completely new chapters. They cover:

CLOS, the Common Lisp Object System, with new features to
support function overloading and object-oriented programming, plus
complete technical specifications

Loops, a powerful control structure for multiple variables

Conditions, a generalization of the error signaling mechanism

Series and generators

Plus other subjects not part of the ANSI standards but of
interest to professional programmers.

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Acknowledgments

The following people were instrumental in the preparation of the html
version of the book:

Mark Kantrowitz

Nikos Drakos

Robert Doorenbos

Marius Minea

Alison Cawsey

Steve Strassmann

Tom Bylander

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